H6663 צָדַק
tsâdaq — to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
KJV: cleanse, clear self, (be, do) just(-ice, -ify, -ify self), (be turn to) righteous(-ness).
Occurs 41 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [צָדֵק, צָדֹק] vb. denom. be just, righteous
- Qal
- 1 have a just cause, be in the right
- 2 be justified
- 3 be just
- 4 be just, righteous
- Niph. the holy place shall be put right
- Pi. justify
- Hiph.
- 1 do justice
- 2 declare righteous, justify
- 3 justify, vindicate the cause of, save
- 4 make righteous, turn to righteousness
- Hithp. how shall we justify ourselves
Where it occurs
- Genesis 38:26 — Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew…
- Genesis 44:16 — Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity…
- Exodus 23:7 — “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
- Deuteronomy 25:1 — If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the…
- 2 Samuel 15:4 — Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to…
- 1 Kings 8:32 — then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and…
- Isaiah 5:23 — who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
- Isaiah 43:9 — Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show…
- Isaiah 43:26 — Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.
- Isaiah 45:25 — All the offspring of Israel will be justified in the LORD, and will rejoice!